Jeff Evans

Martyn Cornell's major study of the origins, history & revival of Porter & Stout, published posthumously. A great legacy.

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So frustrating that another brilliant test series has been hidden behind a pay wall. Such a missed opportunity to show kids just how fantastic proper cricket can be.

If you want to know more about this extraordinary man, check out my profile for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. A library card from many libraries will allow you to sign in free. www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1...

Thank you for the reminder. I think today should be National Pogle Day! Slightly confusingly, the show originally appeared within a strand called Clapperboard...

Played that album to death when I was 13. MFP was a fantastic range for those of us with next to no pocket money.

Sitting in the garden on a lovely summer evening drinking a Christmas stout. It’s anarchy here.

"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject.

Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.

Enormous thanks to all the judges who made yesterday's International Beer Challenge judging such a success. Great beers, great knowledge, great fun. #IBC2025

Should be a good day. Lots of great judges and fine beers!

Looking forward to judging the IBC tomorrow at The Oval, London. Taking on the role of table captain once more which means my fat fingers on the keyboard typing up the judges comments and awards. Will be good to catch up with old friends too 🍻

The Bell, Aldworth, this Saturday

Summer edition of CAMRA's Beer magazine

Enjoying some rare Saturday downtime to read the Summer edition of @camraofficial.bsky.social BEER with articles by @totalcurtis.bsky.social @jacopomazzeo.bsky.social @davidjesudason.bsky.social @morrighani.bsky.social @jeffevanswriter.bsky.social @rogerprotz.bsky.social and others!

Display board with a last paragraph reading: 'The Nazi Party's path to power was not an inevitable, triumphant march. The defensive measures of the state and civilian resistance never came together to form an effective counter-force. The Weimar Republic failed because people didn't oppose extremism vigorously enough.'

The Nazi Documentation Museum in Munich is fascinating and highly educational but, of course, very sobering. The displays and text are easy to follow and there's an important message – one that is very neatly encapsulated in the final paragraph of this image and is begging to be shared.

Interesting painting of a Munich beer garden from 1884 by the artist Max Liebermann (in the city's Alte Pinakothek). Notice how all the beers are dark.

Image of an article in CAMRA's What's Brewing newspaper from 1995 about Wychwood Brewery selling Courage Directors as one of its own beers called Barbarian. The headline reads: Con on the Barbarian?

Still one of my favourite newspaper headlines of all time, from 1995. The brewery later apologised unreservedly and good relations were restored.

Farewell to the Fed. The old Federation Brewery site in Gateshead is to become a £40m multi-storey golf & leisure complex. The Fed supplied working men's clubs since the end of WW1 & briefly brewed Newcastle Brown Ale before Heineken moved it to Tadcaster, losing its protected geographical status.

I recommend the Ken Dodd hotel in Munich.

I honestly could sit in a bar in Bavaria and drink Helles all day.

It’s stopped raining. 😩

At Andechs for the first time in more than 20 years and it’s raining like last time. What to do?

In Munich, watching preparations for Oktoberfest. Some serious construction work going on.

Done that. Wonderful.

Tony Robinson and an elephant in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men.

Work continues on our next book project, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television – 1967-1997, written by Richard Marson. Drawing on over 170 candid interviews and clocking in at over 500 pages, the book promises to be the definitive account of the department's extraordinary output.

So that was you with the Hitler toothbrush thingy?

You've been to my local, The Lion in Newbury. You could have bought me a pint while you were there!

Very sorry to hear that. He was very helpful to me, too.

RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 2. NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS. RILEろ。 THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC. (REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA) RULE I. NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULES. THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER. ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT. RULE 7. ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION. RULE 8. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9. THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.

Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner

NEWBURY!

Indeed.

You made the right decision, Roger. It was incredibly hot.